Word: wafdist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...silence" had been ordered by Wafdist Leader Nahas Pasha, whom King Fuad recently forced to resign as Prime Minister, although he commanded 95% of the seats in Egypt's Parliament. The issue was clearly that of Democracy v. Autocracy, for King Fuad, a British puppet, was attempting to rule last week with a "Palace Premier," Ismail Sidky Pasha, who is not himself a member of Parliament and controls but three Parliamentary votes...
...forty-fifth minute of the "Two Hours of Silence" ticked, leading Wafdists with police whistles stationed themselves beside the barrows full of brickbats, blew and blew. Swiftly an immense Wafdist mob collected, seizing the brickbats, hurled them through plate glass windows with such suddenness that shopkeepers had not time to lower their steel shutters. When police appeared the brickbats flew thicker...
Marching en masse to Parliament House the wafd deputies and senators found the great iron gates locked. "Unlock them!" commanded the deputies' president, a wafdist. "So sorry!" apologized the chief of the parliamentary police, "but the key is lost...